期刊
COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS
卷 75, 期 -, 页码 26-38出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2015.06.003
关键词
Vehicular ad hoc networks; IEEE 802.11p; Beaconing; Packet inter-reception time; Multi-hop information propagation
Periodic exchange of situational information (beacons) is at the basis of most active safety applications in vehicular environments, and understanding its performance in real-world situations is very important. However, existing studies are focused on measuring the packet delivery rate (PDR), while disregarding the packet inter-reception (PIR) time which has recently been shown to be more relevant than PDR to characterize active safety application performance. In this paper, we fill this gap by presenting an extensive study of the PIR times observed in real-world highway scenarios. We start by showing that PIR cannot be reliably estimated from PDR, since the two metrics are only weakly correlated. Motivated by this finding, we present a thorough characterization of the PIR time distribution, which is shown to be a power law in a variety of configurations. The shape of the PIR time distribution indicates that potentially dangerous situational awareness blackouts are relatively frequent and positively time correlated. We then evaluate the effect of vehicle configuration and line-of-sight conditions on the PIR time, and show that relatively simple multi-hop beaconing techniques can substantially improve PIR statistics and, hence, safety. A final contribution of this paper is promoting the Gilbert-Elliot model, previously proposed to model bit-error bursts in packet switched networks, as a very accurate model of beacon reception behavior observed in real-world scenarios. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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